Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument’s denial of permits to the humanitarian organization Humane Borders is the latest move by the Trump administration to inject rightwing politics into the National Park Service. Humane Borders places water barrels in the desert in and around Pima County where thousands of people have died from dehydration. Saving migrant lives doesn’t align with Trump priorities.
An Olympian was falsely prosecuted for touching the Park Service reflecting pool. Border wall construction desecrates Big Bend and Organ Pipe. Donald Trump’s glowering face appears on park passes. Material about slavery, the Indian wars and climate changes is banned from national parks per Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order.
The National Park Service has long been widely admired as a benign, politically neutral government agency. NPS removing Humane Borders water barrels from public lands is their latest regrettable, politically charged act.
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John Stark
Southeast side
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